#EmojiSounds 🩸 #NinaSimone I Ain’t Got No, I’ve Got Life 🎼got my liver, got my blood I’ve got my life I’ve got my freedom I’ve got life m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5jI...

Divine Eternal A prophet of our times Shuhada Sadaqat Better known as Sinead O’Connor #AllisonRussell x #ThisIsToMotherYou LIVE Birthday tribute from 8/12/2023

#EmojiSounds 🛸 The incredible Barbara Hannigan 🇨🇦x Simon Rattle x the Mysteries of the Macabre 🎼Codename LochNess Monster Comet in sight! Red glow! Burns bright! Pst! Satellite! Asteroid! Planetoid! Polaroid! Coming fast! Hostile! Perfidious! Menacing! Fatal! 💥

Saw the incredible 🇨🇦 soprano / conductor #BarbaraHannigan y/day & was blown away 🥰 Here’s an amazing LIVE performance (not to mention stage entrance!) x Simon Rattle from Le Grande Macabre (+ Gershwin to follow 😊) m.youtube.com/watch?v=w0Tv...

The incroyable Barbara Hannigan conducting/ transforming & singing Gershwin’s Embraceable You & I Got Rhythm 🔥 🇨🇦 🎵 LIVE in 🇫🇷 m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXNK...

#EmojiSounds 🎬 Dec is Cab Calloway’s BD month, & here he is w/ the incredible Nicholas Brothers #JumpinJive 🕺 🕺 Rhiannon Giddens ✍🏽 some call it the greatest dance sequence ever filmed; for me it’s also a moment to look on the genius of Fayard & Harold Nicholas

#EmojiSounds When you 🎵 a 100mph tongue twister song so fast you fall into an Irish accent… 😆 Allison Russell x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking 🎼Mary Mac’s mother’s making Mary Mac marry me My mother’s making me marry Mary Mac… 💍 another LIVE 💎 from 1999 m.youtube.com/watch?v=WNh4...

#EmojiSounds 🕊️ Brandi Carlile “Do not leave without this woman in your soul” Allison Russell x Brandi Carlile #Nightflyer 🎼I’m the dove thrown into battle I can roll & shake & rattle LIVE Oct-21, one of the first times they shared the stage together ♥️ ♥️ 🕊️

💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 #PeteMuller x #AllisonRussell #OneLastDance Pete Muller “Allison Russell is a gem, & I’m deeply honoured to have her as a collaborator” The stellar new song from his new album 💫 💃 m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyin...

#EmojiSounds #MusicChallenge Day 5 🎺 Dolly Jones - I May Be Wrong The first female trumpeter to record a jazz record (1926). Taught by her mother—also a trumpet player, Dolly Jones worked with Josephine Baker and Ma Rainey, and here is featured in Oscar Michaux’s film SWING! youtu.be/EEu9XN-pZ2c

#EmojiSounds 🎺 #KateRusby “Colliery brass band 🎵 You hear it & it’s full of tragedy & pride & strength & esp here it’s somehow born into you, this heart-wrenching sound” When Kate hits that last note & the trumpet sounds… My Young Man

#EmojiSounds 💰 Now, would you pay 18 pence for an old chemise at the #CoalQuayMarket? 2 mins of sound advice from #AllisonRussell x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking 😊 🇨🇦 🇬🇧 🇮🇪 🪙

Allison Russell x Ahya Simone (harp) #Transa #AnyOtherWay #JackieShane NYC 12/6 youtube.com/shorts/AfPK0...

#EmojiSounds #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 #Sade’s voice gives me strength & hope I remember how electrified I was the 1st time I heard her - a mixed heritage woman like me - not fitting easily into any box - transcending them all A living, breathing goddess #ByYourSide 🫂 m.youtube.com/watch?v=C8QJ...

Tim Readman “We ended up performing & recording together as a duo and as the band Fear of Drinking… Barrett’s Privateers was one of our crowd pleasers & a fav of Allison’s & found its way onto the album by virtue of the manic energy & audience participation” ♥️ 🎶

Tim Readman “I met Allison Russell in Vancouver in 1998 just after she’d moved here from her native Montreal It was in the SouthHill Candy Store, a small venue where her Aunt Janet often performed She joined her aunt for a couple of songs & blew my mind w/ the power & emotion of her singing

#EmojiSounds 🇯🇲 👋 Hands up who wants to hear #AllisonRussell lead us all in a classic sea shanty? 🔥 A young Allison x Tim Readman / Fear of Drinking Vancouver, 1998 🇨🇦 #BarrettsPrivateers 🎼We were 91 days to Montego Bay LIVE (🧵 to follow) ⚓️https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OdFY6Xjh4wU

#EmojiSounds ⚖️ In honour of our host, am starting this challenge in a majestic Paris church 🇫🇷 #EMEL is one of the great voices for justice over oppression in the world atm Words of hope to Persian melody & a voice that is beauty in any language #Holm / Dream LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZW8...

#MusicInMusic #WeRaiseOurCups to🔥 host @bwodotbc.bsky.social 🥂 #AllisonRussell returns to Hadestown as Persephone in Dec 🌹 An amazing story as 6yrs earlier, AR had written her own song Persephone for her first ❤️ who saved her 🎼for the ones who 🎶in the dead of night… To #Orpheus & all of us

#MusicInMusic #BirdsOfChicago #AmericanFlowers #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Thanks for reminding us that we’re better than we’ve been, JT ♥️ 🎼I was sipping red cream soda I was listening to Johnny Prine LIVE Chicago 2025, a beautiful 🎵 📷 credit: Shauna Ireland 🙏🏽 🌺 🕊️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcRX...

#MusicInMusic #AndyWhite’s tribute to touring artists #56 reasons (why your concert will be empty tonight) Ft Ani, Radiohead, Bruce, Corrs, U2, Jimi & Nirvana 🎼46 The 🇮🇪 singer-songwriter is dead 47 the N Irish 🎼songwriter is still alive (but not very popular) m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuvj...

#MusicInMusic Eddie Balchowski d. OTD 1989 The moving story of the one-armed pianist &🇪🇸 Civil War veteran, immortalised by the stories of #UtahPhillips & woven w/ the magic of #AniDiFranco🎵 🎼I wrote him his death song About a week later I got a call from Eddie… m.youtube.com/watch?v=VcCr...

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Perhaps #MemphisMinnie’s greatest claim to fame is that she was the first known person, male or female, to play the electric guitar 🎸 🖤 🎵 #MusicInMusic 👇

#MusicInMusic #AllisonRussell ✍🏽Lizzie “Kid” Douglas aka #MemphisMinnie (1897-1973) was the Queen of Country Blues Her strong voice & masterful fingerpicking 🎸defied gender & genre & laid the foundation for Chicago blues, R&B & RocknRoll #MeAndMyChauffeurBlues 🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=KiRo...

#MusicInMusic I think of this #BeGoodTanyas 🎶 as the 🪕 playing cousin of The Smiths How Soon Is Now? 🎼Promise we won’t go into a nightclub I really think that it’s obscene What kind of people go to meet people In a place they can’t be heard or seen? m.youtube.com/watch?v=cwkF...

#MusicInMusic Frank Turner’s 🎸tribute 🎼#SisterRosetta Godmother of RocknRoll The original sister of soul All our🎵was in her NYC it was 1938 The 📻 couldn’t wait for Rosetta to rock it &little Elvis, Chuck Jonny at🏠 Heard her on the gramophone &wouldn’t forget it m.youtube.com/watch?v=jrP4...

#ThrowbackThursday on a Sunday 😊 Just found a LIVE version on my phone of #CoalMinersDaughter, Loretta Lynn tribute by #AllisonRussell #EllesBailey & #MikoMarks Americana UK Awards 2023 🏆 Not seen this posted before so made my first ever AR montage - enjoy! m.youtube.com/watch?v=YbSO...

#MusicInMusic Still under the radar but every time I hear an #IrisDement 🎶 I’m amazed 🎼#SweetIsTheMelody so hard to come by It’s so hard to make every #note bend just right U lay down the hours & leave not one trace But a 🎶 for the 💃 is there in its place 🎼 m.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3X...

#EMEL Mathlouthi 14 November, London 🇬🇧 Beautiful a capella encore of traditional Palestinian song 🎶 “This song is for all the wrongly & unjustified imprisoned free spirits”

#MusicInMusic Just back from seeing the amazing #HiromiUehara tonight in 🇬🇧 🎹 🎵 Hiromi x Gershwin x I’ve Got Rhythm m.youtube.com/watch?v=kQoS...

In total, 4️⃣8️⃣women (plus 3 chosen brothers) from over 2️⃣0️⃣countries collaborated to make these two 🔥 albums 1️⃣@mathlouthiEmel #MRA (“woman” in Arabic) is the 1st album made ENTIRELY by women, from artists to engineers to album sleeve #empathy #music #community #EMEL #AllisonRussell 💃 🌹

#MusicInMusic #RayCharles x #HoagyCarmichael 🎼Georgia, Georgia No peace, no peace I find Just an old sweet #song Keeps #GeorgiaOnMyMind RC was fined for refusing to play whites-only shows in his home state in 60s In 1979, it became Georgia’s official song 🖤 LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=Thls...

#MusicInMusic #LhasaDeSela #LaFrontera 4 all those crossing The Border 🎼Sometimes I #dance, sometimes nothing Today I cross the border Under the sky Under the sky The wind is the one sending me Under the steel sky I am the black dot that walks On the shores of luck m.youtube.com/watch?v=5kJ_...

#MusicInMusic Remembering Gordon Lightfoot b. OTD 1938 #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 Our iconic king of poetry & truth-telling…Gordon was a beacon of storytelling, even when it was uncomfortable 🎼The church bells they chimed 29 times For each man on the #EdmundFitzgerald 🍁 m.youtube.com/watch?v=FuzT...

#MusicInMusic In times of chaos & change, there’s always the voice of #KateRusby She wrote this 🎶 for the young son of a musical friend, Davy Steele, on his passing 🎼Who now will sing me #lullabies Who will sing me to sleep Who will sing me to sleep Who will sing? m.youtube.com/watch?v=No5F...

💥 NEW MUSIC ALERT 💥 Happy heavenly b’day to #GordonLightfoot #AllisonRussell x #BlueRodeo #BlackDayInJuly 🔥 🖤 🔥 LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=zD3U...

EMEL x Mezal (still) Beautiful Song & montage in tribute to a trans individual overcoming childhood abuse & for women’s rights & creativity everywhere

EMEL x Kelmti Horra The beauty in the voice, the fire in the heart & the call to action of the drum 🌹 🔥 ♥️ 🪘 🎵

#MusicInMusic d. OTD 17/11/92 Remembering #AudreLorde ✍🏽 My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect u #ABeautifulNoise 🎼When u #band together it’s a #choir Of thunder &rain 🎶I will not let silence win 🎶 🗣️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=_yU1...

#AllisonRussell ✍🏽 remembering #AudreLorde, who passed OTD 17/11/92 Eternal Divine Teacher Poet Beacon Audre Lorde I find my own courage renewed every time I read her works 🙏🏽 🔥 We must find the courage to share ourselves, our stories, unashamedly. Like #AudreLorde.

I first discovered #EMEL thru #AllisonRussell’s playlist #NaciEnPalestina A 🇹🇳 artist I was never aware of, singing in a language I didn’t understand about a land far away 🔥 Written 18+yrs ago, what incredible #empathy & spirit 🕊️ Emel Mathlouthi NYC 2017 LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=NQFN...

#MusicInMusic ♥️ So excited to see #EMEL 🇬🇧 tmw 16th. Her voice & spirit transcends everything Here she is w/ Dhalem / Tyrant, on the power of 🎶 🎼Kill me, & I will write songs Wound me, & I will sing stories Melodies will rain down & dry up my tears 🔥 LIVE 🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mk8...

#MusicInMusic #AllisonRussell #Requiem ARs tribute to the child victims of gun violence, “for all lost & gone forever Clementines” 🎼Bullets, they fly faster than mother’s lullabies Beautiful 2024 LIVE ☮️ (credits: 🎥 Nola Hansen, Ross Farm; 📷 David Kaufman 🕊️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=e1PZ...

#MusicChallenge #NotKnownEnough Peggy Jones aka Lady Bo Though Bo Diddley is credited on Aztec, Peggy Jones wrote and played all the guitar parts on this proto-surf classic youtu.be/Rkj3Fn0f4dg?...

#LookandSee 250 #Musicchallenge #MusicSky Prompt below Mavis Staples - Sad And Beautiful World youtu.be/HAZGQG3yHNo

#MusicInMusic #EllaFitzgerald x Cole Porter 🎶Music come out of her. When she walks down the street she leaves notes🎶 - jazz 🎹 Jimmy Rowles on Ella 🎼But how strange the change From #major to #minor #EveryTimeWeSayGoodbye LIVE m.youtube.com/watch?v=jqa5...

#MusicInMusic From Hank y’day to… Hank today 😊 A soulful under the radar gem from this 2022 tribute 💿 #BillieJoeShaver x #AllisonRussell #TrampOnYourStreet 🎼A long time ago No shoes on my feet I walked 10 miles of train track to hear #HankWilliams sing m.youtube.com/watch?v=EcbQ...

#MusicInMusic #AllisonRussell ✍🏽 #LucindaWilliams is one of the modern poets…#CarWheels is the 1st album I lived inside of She’s brilliant & she does it all w/ a 🎶you never forget & her perfect drawl of a voice 🎼Loretta’s singing / Hank’s voice on the radio 📻 m.youtube.com/watch?v=SsO0...

Our Native Daughters Rhiannon Giddens #MusicInMusic 🤔 Post a song which references music in any way Music and Joy song.link/MusicJoy #musicchallenge #musicsky

#MusicInMusic Time to change the tempo… 😊 #Queen x #BrandiCarlile #Funfact: I ❤️ this: the fan photographer of this 🎥 has now got the official role on Brandi’s new tour 👏 👏 👏 to Jen Horton 💫 📸 🎼#FatBottomedGirls You make the rocking world go round m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDHZ...